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I've read all of Jen's books and let me tell you- this one tops the charts. I could NOT stop laughing. Maybe it helps that I live in a city myself, but seriously, hysterical. If you want to laugh your "big ass" off, you've gotta read it! :)

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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? Overview

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining.

Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting-and losing-the Battle of the Stairmaster- Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.

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Customer Reviews

not as good - Robynn - Seattle, WA.
I enjoy her humor very much and the first book I read was Bitter. Loved it. Ever since then I have been after getting the same laughs. I have read all of her books and I had missed this one. It's ok. Not out loud funny. And I noticed in some chapters I skipped some pages. There were instances that the rambling kept going on and on to the point(when Fletch saw a coyote) that I had a hard time reading the whole thing. I will still buy her next book because I am still searching for that first high! :)



Shame and Disappointment - T. M. Smyth - ChicagoLand
This is the worst book I've been conned into reading a very long time! I was so excited when I picked it up, read the description and little quotations supposedly pulled from reviews on its back cover. It seemed like a really funny, relate-able summer read. And I was thrilled even more to find out that the "big city" referred to by the title was my own, Chicago!

Oh my. What a letdown. From all evidence presented, Jen Lancaster has settled in Chicago after the dot-com crash, and managed to do so in a pretty swanky neighborhood of the city, and completely of her own free will. After some much-whined-about hard times of unemployment, during which she and her husband had to sell off all of their "nice things" from her previous shopping sprees to Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus, she seems to be living a comfortable life as she writes her book and works temp jobs.

The book is just full of what amounts to a spoiled little rich girl, an ex-sorority sister, lamenting that her life isn't better than good. What REALLY put me off the book once and for all was when she began to berate the staff at her favorite Target store (if this is her favorite, I shudder to hear about her LEAST approved-of locale). She claims to have once been a Target cashier, back when Target was a fledgling company operating under a much different marketing ideal than the one most of us know today. And she sounds like a haughty, snobbish, petty old hag, at least TWICE her age when she describes in hyperbolic detail the tattoos she spied on one staff member as well as the stool that one cashier was provided, undoubtedly due to a disability.

I can't imagine what book editor read this manuscript and thought anyone but the top 1% of the wealthy in our country could manage a titter over it. Jen's supposedly hilarious little stories about her "miserable" life in Chicago are classist, immature, self-centered, and ridiculously stuck-up. And given the change in our economy, it has become even more ridiculous to read today. HORRIBLE.






So funny I was crying 10 pages in - Virginia Macsuibhne - CA
This is one of the funniest books I have ever read...I was laughing so hard I was crying 10 pages in.

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